Traditional
Baba Yaga's Daughter
Baba Yaga's Daughter, told by Adam Guillain
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Story
After Vasilisa the Beautiful’s mother dies, her father remarries. One day Vasilisa is sent out by her cruel step-mother and step-sisters to get light. She finds a house in the forest standing on chicken legs and surrounded by a fence of human bones, where she meets and makes friends with Baba Yaga’s daughter. Then Baba Yaga comes home…
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Why we chose it
Baba Yaga is an important figure in Slavic folk stories. Generally portrayed as a witch who rides a pestle and mortar and lives in a hut that stands on chicken legs, surrounded by a fence of bones, deep in the forest. In this story she is an evil witch but there are stories in which she helps the hero.